I created OlyManifesto.com as a way to express…you don’t have to agree with anything I write, that’s not required, but you should agree with something and not just what gets shoved down your throat by the media, family and friends…find out what really affects you, why you do what you do…start to unlearn, take the Red Pill. Sheep No More!
Digital Nomad
I started my digital career as a web designer, after designing a website for a person they would ask how they could get their website to show up in search engines…back then it was just a matter of stuffing keywords and you were at the top of Yahoo, AOL, HotBot, Excite, WbCrawler, Ask Jeeves(Now Ask), Dogpile, AltaVista, (Yahoo bought them) and Lycos, to name a few.
Then in 1998 Google Beta was born but Yahoo was still king. You can’t stuff keywords anymore…I’ve been doing it for more than two decades now and have learned a lot about it and get good long term results…it’s an on-going process though, because things change very often and you have to keep up with the changes.
I soon crossed over to Search Engine Optimization full time, before it was even called that. I studied the code of other websites to see how they were making their websites show up on page 1 in search engines. I used to use a search engine called Meta Search, which turned into a shopping site, then disappeared…such is the internet.
Best Deal Hosting.
At the same time I started a Reseller Hosting account Called Best Deal Hosting. It was going well until I realized how much of a crook the guy was that owned the hosting business I was reselling. cPanel wasn’t around then so it was a bit difficult getting things done for my customers, because I had to get the crook to add the site, email addresses and everything else you can do by yourself now with cPanel.
SEO Expert
That stands for Search Engine Optimization. If you don’t know what is, I’ll explain it. If you have a website that you want people to find when they search for the product you are selling or for whatever reason you have a website…I’ll use one of the default explanations. You’re selling blue widgets online, so when a person searches for blue widgets, (your main keyword/phrase), you want to show up on the first page of a search engine like Duck Duck Go, Google or Bing, preferably in the top 5…the difference between being on page 1 and page 2 is enormous…your sales can go down up to 90% if you’re on page 2…so you really want to be on page one!
Humanitarian
I’m a good human being! I like helping animals, people, plants, insects and anything else that needs help, whenever I can. If a guy is standing at the end of a Freeway off-ramp and I have a buck, I’ll give it to him…I HAVE TO help ANY animals that need help…they’ll come to you and tell you that they need your help.
An example of that: When I was living in a very small pueblo in Mexico…I was the only American. There was a little supermercado down the hill from the house I was renting, the owners had a beautiful puppy, but what puppy or baby animal isn’t beautiful for that matter…this puppy’s name was Toby.
He was about 3 months old and a ball of energy…I fell in Love with him right away. When he would see me, he would come running toward me and then start jumping around at my feet. He would follow me back up the hill and play with my dogs until they got tired of him and chased him off, he would run back down the hill yelping…funny and sad at the same time.
One day, I went down to the store and he saw me, but he didn’t bolt over to me like he usually did…this day, he trotted slowly with a sad look on his face…I knew something was wrong immediately. I didn’t listen to my instincts that were telling me to take him to the vet…but Toby wasn’t under my care…I was not his human. I went to the store and went home…he didn’t follow me.
The next day I went back down to the store and he was very lethargic…I told the owner of the store that there was something wrong with him and that I wanted to take him to the vet. She said, “Toby es el perro de mi esposo”, “Toby is my husband’s dog.” I had to wait for him to come home so we could go. We went and the vet wanted to keep Toby overnight, but Toby’s human didn’t want to do that. We went home.
The next day I went down to the store to see how Toby was…he died during the night…I was heart broken! If I acted on my instincts that first day…he might still be alive. It was part of my learning/teaching I suppose. That’s why it is VERY important to ALWAYS FOLLOW YOUR HEART!
I always have for the most part…when I was younger, I was pretty stubborn at times…but since I cut the ego loose, the stubbornness is just about deleted from my programming.
Now, for the most part I LIVE LIFE, I LOVE and I FOLLOW MY HEART…ALWAYS!